Recent content by randomjoe1337

ah, thanks for pointing that out! I thought as long as it has the supported speed and type it will work. then I guess I will have to look for a compatible one

Hello Guys, I am planning on building a new gaming PC. Right now I have Nvidia 1070 GTX, 16GB RAM and an Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3, and (apparently) a CPU bottleneck of ~31%. For my next build, I would like to minimize the bottleneck as much as possible. I am playing on 1440p and I only use the...

As written in my OP I had already checked the msconfig & checked for an option to disable onboard graphics (but thanks for pointing out that I have no integrated graphics, I always thought I have :) ). I fixed it now. I was under the impression that removing the battery is enough to clear the...

I did that just now, unfortunately my PC wont boot at all now (no beep, no fan spinning). Maybe the CMOS battery is bad? I had that issue 2 weeks before as well, what I did was remove everything and put it back together and suddenly the PC booted again

Just tried that, increase from 1.500 to 1.520V and now I get the same boot error as when enabling XMP, with slightly different values: 1.520V 1.540V BIOS says that default is 1.500V. should I keep increasing the voltage?

I just checked, and XMP was already disabled. I have enabled it (I just have the option to either select "Disabled" or "Profile1"). When I select "Profile1" & reboot I get an error on boot: I already did that, updating the BIOS was the first thing I did (forgot to mention it), and all RAM...

Hello, I have 16gb of RAM (4x4Gb DDR3 1600MHZ), on a older GA-H97-D3H Motherboard / Dual Channel and an Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 Processor. 2 weeks ago I had to reset the CMOS and afterwards Windows showed 16gb in task manager, but 8GB are suddenly hardware reserved. The RAM is from 2 2x-Kits and...